HW - due Tue/Wed:  

1.  Read IRP (minimum of 20 minutes) and do a log in your English Journal.  Answer the 4 info questions (date, time spent reading, title and author, pages read).  Then respond to the following prompt:

What is the tone of your book and how do you know?

2.  Make up any missing work (interviews, etc) and be ready to go on Keynote and Presentation Planning

 

 

HW - due Thurs/Fri:

1.  Read your IRP book for 20 minutes and do a log in your English Journal.  Answer the 4 info questions.  Respond to the following prompt:

Pick one thing that you read that reminds you of a personal experience or memory.  Explain and describe the connection.

2.  Complete the Individual Team Log (due on day of presentation)

3.  Be ready for presentation and to turn in complete packet of work for the group.

 

“Presentation” is the name of the game for Lesson 47 as groups present their Connecting Metro ideas.  Each block will vote on the most exciting idea they see, and that group will present to the Metro Leadership Team.  Work packets will be collected.

 

All are welcome to sit in on presentations.  They will be happening throughout the day.

 

HW - Due Mon:

1.  Read your IRP book for 20 minutes each day

2.  Do SDT writing in your English Journal

 

 

 

 

 

HW - due Tue/Wed:  

1.  Come with a NEW IRP book for January.  For those of you who have been reading the same book since November yet still have not completed it... too bad.  Get a new one.  This book will be started and finished in the month of January.  We begin reading again in class on Tuesday.

2.  Do the Show, Don’t Tell Writing assignment that your class received.  Most classes are doing extensions or expansions of the Their relationship changed... prompt.  Block D is doing the first version of this.  All SDT writing should be 1/2 page in your English Journal.

3.  With your group, select your first choice idea for the Connecting Metro project.

 

Lesson 43 will find us settling into class once more with a glorious 20 minutes of IRP and then some deep metacognition.  We will work with the SDT writing that you did for homework.  After that, you will transition into independent group work to take your Connection Metro idea and do a SMART goal check on it using the worksheet I provide.  Once that is complete, you will staple the worksheet to your Brainstorm sheet and move on to the Written Proposal.  Each group member must take a section of the proposal, and you will log who worked on what portion.  The proposal is due on Thursday of this week.

 

HW - due Thurs/Fri:

1.  Read your IRP book for 20 minutes

2.  Do 1/2 page SDT writing in your English Journal

3.  Complete your portion of the Written Proposal to turn into me during class.

 

IRP will begin Lesson 44 as you really settle in to your January book.  After the metacog-ing (I really love that you all have adopted that as a verb), we will check your SDT writing and do some revision.  I will then check your Written Proposals.  During class you will create your timeline, budget, list of supplies, etc. as well as generate the questions that you will use to seek feedback from your peers on your idea.

 

HW - Due Mon:

1.  Read your IRP book for 20 minutes each day

2.  Do SDT writing in your English Journal

3.  Each person will survey 5 people (peers, family members, teachers, etc) and record the feedback that is given.  This will be used in class on Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

We will return to Show, Don’t Tell writing for the next phase of your learning.  We will evaluate two passages of student writing that respond to the same prompt, and then you will write you own response for homework.

 

HW:  Write a 1/2 page response in your English Journal (with appropriate heading of the date and prompt) to the sentence “Their relationship changed.”  This is due on MONDAY, 1/7

 

You will then learn about the final component of the Exhibition work that you will do for the first quarter - remember, we are still in the first semester of the school year.  Grades do not close until the end of January.  To get the “group” back into the group project aspect of the Exhibition, you will answer one last question:

 

How can we make Metro more connected as a community?

 

You will do this by creating a real-life proposal to the real-life challenge of growing together as a school community.  Please reference the Keynote presentation of the lecture that explains the various elements of this work.

 

You only assignment over the break is to read your IRP book each day and complete a Metacog Log.  

 

You should come in on our first day back (January 3rd) with a COMPLETE log book (30 entries).  For some of you, this may require several reading sessions a day to catch up.  Have fun!

 

Appreciate the people around you, revel in the chance to laugh and rest with friends and family, notice all of the things in your life that are wonderful, imagine what you would like to make happen for yourself in the year to come.

 

"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."

-- T.S. Eliot

 

See you all in 2008.

 

Exhibition Week!

 

You will be performing on Monday and Tuesday in the evening.

 

We will complete reflections and metacognitive activities, and you will turn in the packet of exhibition work at the end of the week.

 

Congratulations - this week is the culmination of months of hard work!